For several weeks, R&D reported a real invasion of “parachutists” jumping from all floors of the Berlaymont to senior management posts which were freed in advance, sometimes by thanking acting colleagues who often occupied those posts for months… These nominations and career accelerations are all the more unacceptable when the post-2004 colleagues still have […]
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The request of staff to unions is clear: “please agree and join forces to defend us more effectively” Reply from R&D: colleagues, you are right! Stop union cacophony You have been flooded by different types of complaints from different unions. Many of you ask what you should do, alone or with their support, confronted with […]
Read more64 years late! Flexible working arrangements, beneficial to both employers and workers … such are the conclusions of an earlier study by the European Commission! If “New World of Work” means a host of new management practices (management by objectives, management by project, knowledge management, etc.) and organisational forms (networks, virtual and independent teams, etc.), which combine with each other […]
Read moreThe move to the 40-hour working week obliges many of you and especially female colleagues to reorganize your working time and family obligations. Apparently, the hierarchy too! We learned that talks are taking place in some DGs to discourage people working part-time and to ask them to switch back tofull-time. R&D has always been in favour of a better reconciliation of work and family life and denounces such practices which mark a profound regression in relation to social gains as well as a deterioration in working conditions. If you find yourself in such a situation, […]
Read moreFollowing the unfavourable judgments delivered on Tuesday 19 November by the Court of Justice concerning the application of the method of adjusting our remuneration and pensions for 2011, many of you have shared with us your surprise and disappointment. Faced with this particularly complex situation, R&D immediately initiated an in-depth legal analysis – you will […]
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